Messatoporus zonatus ( Cresson 1865 )

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Messatoporus zonatus ( Cresson 1865)

( Fig. 376 )

* Mesostenus zonatus Cresson 1865: 28 . Description. Holotype ♀ (ANSP, not examined).

Mesostenus zonatus Gundlach. 1886 . Listed.

Mesostenus zonatus: Dalla Torre 1902 . Listed.

Mesostenus zonatus: Schmiedeknecht 1908:57 . Listed.

* Messatoporus zonatus: Townes 1946: 46 . Generic transfer.

Messatoporus zonatus: Alayo & Tzankov. Description, distribution, figure.

Messatoporus zonatus: Yu & Horstmann 1997:274 . Listed.

Messatoporus zonatus: Yu et al. 2005 . Listed.

Female. Not examined. From data provided by Cresson (1865) and Alayo and Tzankov (1974), the following diagnosis can be formulated: Fore wing 5–6 mm long. Ventral tooth of mandible distinct; clypeus somewhat convex, anterior area medially almost straight; antenna sparsely pilose; supra-antennal area with slight median line. Epicnemial carina complete; sternaulus strong; mesoscutum shiny, impunctate; notaulus deeply impressed and almost parallel. Anterior area of propodeum not punctate, slightly rugulose; spiracle elliptic; anterior transverse carina medially straight posterior area with transverse wrinkles; posterior transverse carina represented by very weak sublateral crests. Fore wing vein 1cu-a meeting M+Cu basad to 1M+Rs; cell 1+2Rs small, crossvein 3r-m absent. Hind wing vein Cua longer than 1cu-a. Spiracle of T1 slightly prominent; ovipositor slightly more than 0.5 × as long as metasoma.

Color. Head, meso– and metasoma black with whitish marks. Scape ventrally whitish; flagellum black, f6–16 white. Mesoscutum with U-shaped whitish mark; postscutellum black; anterior area of propodeum black, posterior area with arc-shaped whitish mark. Legs yellowish orange, except for the following: mid and hind coxae with blackish stripe; hind t1 apically, t2–4 and t5 basally, whitish; t1 basally and t5 apically, blackish. T1 whitish, with median blackish mark. T2–8 black with posterior whitish stripes.

Male. Generally similar to female, except for the following: spiracle of T1 more strongly projected; mid coxa whitish, without blackish marks; hind coxa very long, densely pilose, with black stripes.

Comments. Differs from the other Cuban species, M. townesi mainly by the following: scape vebtrally whitish (vs. black); antennae less densely pilose; flagellum uniform (vs. flattened and widened subapically); postscutellum black (vs, whitish); anterior area of propodeum moderately pilose, slightly rugose (vs. glabrate and almost impunctate); mid and hind coxae with blackish marks (vs. entirely orange); hind tarsus more extensively whitish and ovipositor shorter.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Southeastern and northwestern Cuba ( Fig. 376 ). Messatoporus zonatus appears to occur in sympatry with the other Cuban species, M. townesi , at least at one of its recorded localities (Santiago de Cuba).

Figures

FIGURES 369–376. Distribution maps for species of Messatoporus. 369 M. townesi. 370, M. transversostriatus. 371, M. unidentatus. 372, M. unimaculatus. 373, M. variegatus. 374, M. versicolor. 375, M. xanthogaster. 376, M. zonatus.